TOP NON-COMM RECORDS OF 2020
| # | ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WAXAHATCHEE | Saint Cloud | Merge |
| 2 | FIONA APPLE | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 3 | NATHANIEL RATELIFF | And It's Still Alright | Stax/Concord |
| 4 | KHRUANGBIN | Mordechai | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 5 | TAME IMPALA | The Slow Rush | Interscope |
| 6 | KHRUANGBIN AND LEON BRIDGES | Texas Sun [EP] | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 7 | FLEET FOXES | Shore | Anti- |
| 8 | SYLVAN ESSO | Free Love | Loma Vista |
| 9 | KATHLEEN EDWARDS | Total Freedom | Dualtone/eOne |
| 10 | JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT | Reunions | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers |
| 11 | AVETT BROTHERS, THE | The Third Gleam | Loma Vista |
| 12 | CHICANO BATMAN | Invisible People | ATO |
| 13 | DRIVE BY TRUCKERS | The Unraveling | ATO |
| 14 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
| 15 | PHOEBE BRIDGERS | Punisher | Dead Oceans |
| 16 | MY MORNING JACKET | The Waterfall II | ATO |
| 17 | LUCINDA WILLIAMS | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway 20/Thirty Tigers |
| 18 | MARCUS KING | El Dorado | Fantasy/Concord |
| 19 | RUN THE JEWELS | RTJ4 | Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG |
| 20 | JAYHAWKS, THE | Xoxo | Sham/Thirty Tigers |
| 21 | MARGO PRICE | That's How Rumors Get Started | Loma Vista |
| 22 | SOCCER MOMMY | Color Theory | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 23 | LIANNE LA HAVAS | Lianne La Havas | Warner |
| 24 | ANDY SHAUF | The Neon Skyline | Anti- |
| 25 | SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS | Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) | Daptone |
| 26 | BEST COAST | Always Tomorrow | Concord |
| 27 | TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS | Got To Be Tough | Trojan Jamaica/BMG |
| 28 | DJ SHADOW | Our Pathetic Age | Mass Appeal |
| 29 | WOLF PARADE | Thin Mind | Sub Pop |
| 30 | BECK | Hyperspace | Capitol |
| 31 | LAURA MARLING | Song For Our Daughter | Chrysalis/Partisan |
| 32 | DEVON GILFILLIAN | Black Hole Rainbow | Capitol |
| 33 | BUDOS BAND, THE | Long In The Tooth | Daptone |
| 34 | BOB DYLAN | Rough And Rowdy Ways | Columbia |
| 35 | MICHAEL KIWANUKA | KIWANUKA | Polydor |
| 36 | BRIGHT EYES | Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 37 | JEFF TWEEDY | Love Is The King | dBpm |
| 38 | KURT VILE | Speed, Sound, Lonely KV [EP] | Matador/Beggars |
| 39 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | Letter To You | Columbia |
| 40 | GORILLAZ | Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | Parlophone/Warner |
| 41 | HAIM | Women In Music Pt. III | Columbia |
| 42 | CAR SEAT HEADREST | Making A Door Less Open | Matador/Beggars |
| 43 | FONTAINES DC | A Hero's Death | Partisan |
| 44 | BETHS, THE | Jump Rope Gazers | Carpark |
| 45 | PEARL JAM | Gigaton | Monkeywrench/Republic |
| 46 | CAROLINE ROSE | Superstar | New West |
| 47 | WASHED OUT | Purple Noon | Sub Pop |
| 48 | DESTROYER | Have We Met | Merge |
| 49 | DEATH VALLEY GIRLS | Under The Spell Of Joy | Suicide Squeeze |
| 50 | BULLY | SUGAREGG | Sub Pop |